Analysis – Page 447 – People's World

Editorial: All U.S. forces must leave Iraq

January 20, 2006

Faced with growing popular demand to end the Iraq war and bring American soldiers home quickly, and pressed by November elections that will decide the composition of Congress through 2008, the Bush administration has begun to...

Strange case of Padilla gets stranger

January 19, 2006

Commentary The case of accused enemy combatant Jose Padilla gets more bizarre with every passing month. Rather than being a case that would establish the government’s right to arrest even U.S. citizens on U.S. soil and...

U.S. bends law to deny justice to Cuban 5

December 2, 2005

Routine administrative and legal procedures are often subject to manipulation, never more so than when Cuba’s enemies manipulate them. The misuse of accepted procedures is seen in the continuing persecution of five Cuban men and members...

Renewal of Patriot Act runs into trouble

December 2, 2005

The USA Patriot Act, major parts of which have to be reauthorized by Congress before the end of the year, has run into unexpected trouble, with both Democrats and some Republicans balking on conceding powers desired...

Editorial: Keep the pressure on

December 2, 2005

President George W. Bush is continuing his lies to justify the unjustifiable. In a Nov. 30 speech crafted to contain a brewing rebellion against his failed Iraq policy, he led off with a long-discredited whopper, alluding...